Someone summon Mulder and Scully because this should be on X-Files. (Horrors, I nearly wrote X-Factor by mistake. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!)
Poppy hasn't been 100% for quite a while what with a damaged tendon then a hoof abscess. I haven't been 100% for quite a while (which has nothing to do with my legs or toenails)
This week, Poppy was super-fit. We had a lesson for the first time in ages and I took her on a slightly longer hack than usual - being careful not to over-stretch her. She was full of energy and positively FLYING. So was I - getting on very well with the novel and the screenplay and marketing on top of my day job. Soaring, I was!
Today, my brain feels sluggish as though it's only working at about three-quarters capacity. Still, fresh air is always (nearly always) my answer, so off up to the yard I go.
Poppy is lame!
Her right hind...SHE is only working at three-quarters capacity. She's now in a box waiting for the farrier to see if she has another abscess.
Do you think the farrier would look at my brain at the same time?
My horse's lameness led to two concussions for me -- having to do with too much box rest for a big strong active boy. So when I did ride him, KABOOM. Perhaps the subtle links between horses and their riders are not always so subtle....!
ReplyDeleteI'll try to avoid any KABOOM scenarios - although that happened to me rather too often when I was bringing Poppy back to fitness after her tendon op - in box except for 90 minutes exercise per day, ice, snow, rain and probably hurricane and hailstorm too although by that time I was too exhausted to notice.
ReplyDeleteAnd the good news is - she DOES have an abscess. (And the bad news is, back to tubbing and poulticing and trying to keep the equiboot on!)